union troops will stay fresh for weeks. and new wounding more than one. the art scene in a while to later said he was reportedly fallen to ten arrests below general mani are besieged by al qaeda militants. while many iraqis still experience for all insurgent bombing. the latest on the unrest in iraq. in a series of new developments on the nsa surveillance us senator ran fall plants are bringing t nsa support for relieving the american right on the nsa is sidestepped the question over whether or not they find on contracts for a nap coming on. in four states without foster the nation's energy boom have found that there is a link

between cracking and water pollution. look at the faith that have found a connection later and to make out. on a cheery six liked him in washington d c and i can look at me and you are watching our t ball over the weekend and already volatile deadly not only force is to call them to key cities in the anbar province numbers with the islamic state of iraq and syria where the curry as high as one attacks on the same for money in falluja. if only the sounds familiar to you this because it is the location of some of the bloodiest the fighting between u s force is an updated groups back in two thousand for at least twenty people died on sunday and bombings iraqi military forces have responded with air strikes that reportedly killed a sixty militants twenty two soldiers at least twelve civilians have also

died in the battles. us secretary of state john kerry has promised military support iraqis but said no us troops will be put in harm's way kerry said quote this is the fines that belongs to the rockies. we are not obviously contemplating returning when i'm contemplating putting boots on the ground this is their fights but we are going to haunt them in their fight to talk about the current situation in iraq and joined earlier by saeed are excellent. he is a corresponding political analyst for the balkans newspaper. a startled by giving me a little bit of background about the region in question. this is the center of the sunni heartland and with that at the center of the sunni insurgency back to the two thousand and three and two thousand and eight until his uncle helped chris was able to create the awakening councils and so on. so it is very important and the iraqi air force and are not worthy of me to handle this the influx of that huge

forces don't mean to be speaking as a surprise and regulars are concerned why forces that have been conferred on the city and basically taking the team needed a name from the main center and the throbbing in songs of the year for coming control. this lifted the mood to which it said. also it creates enter into the net and cultural center of the team and i'm bop province and sour sauce it's very important for them to control it but it would be. i did as stand ins to compose but also in sequim with the political been thinking back i was the specific importance of this area i mentioned a couple of different issues regarding this very obviously a taxi area but also there is a sunni majority as i understand in this area. so how does that play into this whole situation was that i detected during the insurgency that was really the epicenter of the insurgency so it was basically that the initiative of compatriots back down

cool when i've created that are truly a creative with his advisors the awakening councils where the sudanese network and have mobilized to fight al qaeda and they didn't even cry and throw them out in the region has one and returned they were taken back into the government can do is assume it was a great many of their former positions on to set them on saw a lot of them were below the sea of troubles teeth and tongue were in a minute did and i drank it so so they'll get that piece that prestigious position and am so in so doing basically made peace with so to speak by the american so it is very very important that people continue to invade it and it could end up with this type of government that will get to know so that he has been set for leverage for the day i'm basically an outside after the us to grow and asked to donate to the spelling on that right now iraq is led by a shia majority followed by prime

minister nor don't want to eat so i as i understand and reports that i've read some of those mountains actually went to prayers over the weekend saying that they were going to protect the sunni people living in falluja and living in anbar province brown that the shiite majority government which is an interesting point is this the biggest security threat that iraqi troops have faced since add the last laugh definitely a film with the ultimate fear is the most truth situation and the baby and meditate the years but they withdrew from iraq in two thousand and eleven. and now the problem is it's also playing on the fifteen differences that are now going to reach and syria has been a spillover from the city award into iraq and so on that exacerbate the situation is far more complex and so when i'm in the absence of that and it's a good status of forces agreement with the united states iraq with the insomnia can defend itself and today we were told that that the ongoing supply them with hellfire missiles and so on but in fact iran is not even have the means to deliver

those nestled in a fighting chance they would have said in a combat helicopters and sewing so i mostly use it to him and basically ate them directly and perhaps with ongoing strike as they do in yemen and pakistan is going to be a very difficult fight to do for my ticket to the really glad that you brought up the plane of syriac on the violence and syria is spilling over says i know that some of the weapons that the isi as his music. they smuggled from a black beans that we are in syria that were actually supplied by saudi forces. so is all of this directly related to syria or is there something else that's going on here. we headed out the back to two to three fifteen the head with it because it is cold this time it didn't go to iraq and moved eleven times this day basically that's what is it that way they'd be too big and the acronym that stands for that so it is you know it is sort of relax take a group that goes across the border of the boy has always been for us to process and iraq so this one and second is

also the second divide that is being fed constantly for this war hysteria that more and more if they cannot stick to a new aspect. interesting aspect to bring up is the rundown your scene and two lawmakers in particular that are really criticizing what's going on in iraq as a filler but they really are from the once for not meeting us troops in two thousand won as the center's once a graham and john mccain now the real thing and leave those troops in aceh because there was no lack of iraq's parliament area decision to give immunity troops were kind conversely going through similar situations in afghanistan and you think that karzai should be taking note. mostly i think that the interview can be a lesson drawn from iraq and what happened with the phineas and it was basically a figure on friday. that's the sort of an iphone app somewhat of an agreement with iraq and i was into two thousand and seven one b and for a sofa agreement was in no way it out with it with the iraqis and onion on two thousand and eleven or two thousand and ten. then the mob

adminstration was unable to wake up any kind of a headset support debuted with the iraqis so they look good to know their own device to speak to fight terrorism and dad basically it depends a great deal on the ride many rides and it's all right now we're saying is that talbot slain iraqi force is and that between this al qaeda isi ask not what it could very easily slip into sectarian violence in the coming days but opted to come very close eye on this site their correspondence with plans for all codes newspaper thank you so much for wang and the economy. kentucky sen grandpa was making headlines once again this time he's attacking the national security agency with a mass of class action lawsuit that claims the nsa violating americans' constitutional rights. what this book collection of mid day that scares me and call explaining the law suits. we think everybody in america who has a cell phone would be eligible for this class action suit innovative your viewers have a cell phone they set to go to my

facebook tonight they can sign up to be part of the losses. we want to overwhelm the government we want to show publicly that hundreds of thousands of people don't. we object to the government looking at our records without our permission. so far center paul claims he has more than two hundred fifty thousand signatures on its website and the number is growing daily maxine fox news interview grandpa was asked if he was afraid that the nsa was spying on him and he said he didn't believe he was being spied on personally the potential for abuse exists which is my point by the nsa is own admission the same in responding to senator bernie sanders question about whether the nsa is spying on members of congress. the agency tells rt well. an essay authorities took the lad to collect signals intelligence data include procedures that protect the privacy of us persons such protections are built into my head cut across the entire process. members of congress have the same privacy protections as all of

us persons. somehow i was lying there on the same pain as the rest of us which means that i have been collecting them in a data as well earlier today as both a great allotments and wild mint also at the brennan center. i was staring everyone in the south and could potentially be a part of this lawsuit as senator ran a column like it's maintenance is still little and determine an essay has been a little close mouthed about which companies that actually collecting from the time and we know in part from the president or more to protect him a couple of weeks ago that they may not be collecting from all companies has come to some number that isn't published yet. it's hard to say that literally every single person with a cell phone is necessarily being affected by this certainly know that a lot of americans are sure how likely is it that a class action lawsuit like this could realistically it has all been a change that as monetary or other finds. the sioux language required for class action suit is that there be a group of people who have

had some clean some question a lot in common it's more practical to bring the lawsuit as a group and individually. we had nice to know kind of completing decisions that have just come down from different test records one saying the program is totally constitutional ones saying that it's not combine both of them but the kids in those cases had standing that evening were allowed to bring these lawsuits. it's not inconceivable that some much larger group of people would have included were learning about the program. and i write this to laugh and have differing opinions may comes to federal nine justices on what they had to center by federal judges anyway. on the other hand on friday the price of corn used its program for another ninety days at bolton and data collection and so is this significant considering how contests that this man a data collection program has become knew that that defy the court was going to renew the quarter and would be stunned if the court had said no we're not going to quite

have the information from an ap has decided that it's come from or renewing these orders that's the end of this program is now being battled out in much more to remain as if these courts were their adversaries on both sides there people making the argument against the program's insight into pieces are going to test the constitutionality of the programs going much more that has been happening in a much more secret i support absolutely no i read this exchange between senator ron wyden and dad james laughter was the director of national intelligence to collapse does the interstate collecting any type of data at all. and millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no storm. he does not. not willingly else if enacted this anime and legislators have been calling up or actions some type of action against james for saying that they say they see

blatantly lied to congress monday night is like err i actually shot back that said jensen york times for that saying that he blatantly lie to congress. they sent out in detail would have been irrational for mr class with flying disc earrings and every member of the committee was already aware of the program. as mr packer has explained he was surprised by the question and focus his mind on the collection of the content of americans' communications in that context his answer was and is accurate when we pointed out mr packer's mistake to him he was surprised and d that surprised in this class different narratives coming from the center widens office on one hand and from that office that the lawyer for the t and i on the other hand said the agreement with that then the second is that center why his office had presented the question things and then in questioning and that mr crapper be sleeping to misrepresent the collection was going on senator wyden said he got the question means he had he had an opportunity consider it to answer it correctly or at least to say he couldn't

answer it in on classified setting and then one mistake was pointed out to him he didn't take any opportunity to correct it. bob was on the other hand said seemed silly to question his staff saw that he didn't and couldn't really corrected because the programs had been declassified. we know exactly what went on behind the scenes. the teams that need help. mr packer has been in this business for a long time he's been doing intelligence for a long time he's testified to congress many times. it still troubling that faced with this question. i wasn't thinking of the man said many data collection program on americans. on a minivan a nice fall back on the entry in the classifieds and he said breaking into a fun trip very interesting point and yell and that same fox interview that we played earlier. grandpa went on to say that if we are going to extend the line and prosecute that it snowed and we should keep that line and prosecute and apparantly what to say that he's an interesting thing to know them or in a jail cell. geller had

together. thank you so much as any rate a levinson waldman council at the brennan center. finally done it before and that you probably have to read something on facebook posted by someone he probably hadn't spoken with in years and really gets your blood boiling. art isn't there a day that explains why in these moments you might wanna keep your fingers off the keyboard. if you're a facebook account and the queen or another and how we found herself in the following situation here typing your status update you all set to post it. and the offense cakes and then you realize that posting and linking to the state needs to personal or controversial but for whatever reason you don't need a feeling a sense of relief that no one what many of them the seed of words it's really not the case the fifth book on the toronto said on its self censorship and at the behavior that the social media site wants to discourage the company wants you to post anything and everything are thinking when you're thinking. that's when to facebook back to researchers decided to

abandon the fruit the unseen mention the nurse told her what the thai economy dude that's why according to the study facebook send the code to your browser icon automatically tracks and what you type into any text box and reports and information back to the website. now the researchers say the only setback. madame de then that shows whether a user had self centered not what the user had tight. that doesn't mean that the spokane mean what you don't post. in fact the study proves that the company certainly happen technological ability to read that information. it's not sitting well with some facebook users an on line petition twenty eight thousand people so far have called on the social network faults the stocking are on posting shots. in response to the petitioner company spokesperson denying the allegations. it's only natural that facebook does not collect or track any content that people have chosen not to post. me the sound coming from the same company but under

fire for another privacy complaint. just before the new year facebook was slapped with a class action privacy while seated the lawsuit claims that the social network is scanning users kind of message is don't earn a profit from your data. in other words if you send a private message that includes a link to another website this book form and my sister into our private post as the light for that company and that means that you're planting communications all the sudden become . the main problem is that the news is that facebook has been misrepresenting the primacy measures around personal messaging. the seats as facebook mind to any and all transmissions across its network including those in labels prevent you were to gain any and all morsels of information they can about its users. the social media site will likely argue that there's a difference between having its computers in your message is present and thirteen rebounds. an interest to me that's not an

argument we haven't heard before. in recent months the nsa has come to us in the defense regarding the agency's ball collection of the public's man and a doubt. so we'll know where americans are forced to re evaluate their perspective on the nsa. it seems like many bands will also have to re evaluate their perspective on social media and washington during day that our team the federal bureau of investigations has in the end of this of whining crying with one four cents as its main focus however it seems the fbi as priorities might be shifting away from putting criminals behind bars while combing through the pages of fbi documents after successfully filing a freedom of information act request washington based national security lawyer khalil planning and notice a change in the agency's fact sheets that was sent out this summer the primary function of the fbi used to be yet one parsnip this but these days national security is the agency is named bob gets the fbi says this change in priorities has been going on

since the september eleventh attacks on the world trade center. fbi spokesman paul dress and told foreign policy magazine match of the agency's website and missions have won reflected this deviation from its original goal was. critics say the fbi is d prioritizing the enforcement substantially in fact according to a two thousand ten inspector general's report that in two thousand one hundred thousand eyeing the fbi and doubled its number of agents focus on counterterrorism and national security efforts during that same time there was a notable d klein in the number of criminal cases that were investigated by the agency and east of prague and investigations over white collar crimes. solid and i need a reason when the bankers because the two thousand nine financial crash and continually use a risky business practices still walk as free men. perhaps the better question now is if the fbi its primary mission is national security these days. once the department of homeland security doing. one

child to police officers charged the death of a mentally ill homeless man has resumed this week of testimony from ucla cardiologist. cardiologists expected to support the prosecution's claim that thirty seven year old talent on this night as a result of a violent beating at the hands of six for ten police officers and not because of that part caused by years of drug use helen thomas got into an altercation with police officers indicted july two thousand and one day at airports book called the station about a man and juggling five current or candles at a bus depot parking lot. the defense contends that the officers acted within the department's policy and act on this fine with that. former wellington officer manuel ramos has been charged with second degree murder and involuntary manslaughter on the police corporal jason finale has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and the use of excessive force. a third officer joseph wolf will face trial later this month. in

the first time in the history of orange county where police officers are on trial for their actions while on duty the case could be handed over to the jury and this week. also ahead here on rte in four us states there are hundreds of complaints over hydraulic fracturing. this process to relieve it deeply buried natural gas has left locals theory that went on in and wander supply. when the effects of cracking after the break. the road. i do. it

looks. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf. and that's why confine my show larry king now right here on rt question more. i was. eye since. welcome back an

investigation has begun to shed light on some of the dangers of hydraulic fracturing or frightening across the country the associated press collected records of complaints in pennsylvania ohio texas and west virginia hundreds of grievance as reported by residents over the years. pennsylvania had three hundred ninety eight complaints last year alone ohio reported for me was for james hasn't received one hundred twenty two letters of the past four years and tax is presented the ap with a ninety four page spread sheet outlining truth. complaints over the years. very few of these allegations were actually confirmed by the states. the franking is a way to extract natural gas and oil from deeper within the earth and previous technologies allowed. how the horizontal drilling in jack's family pressure influence into shale rock layers fracture in and then allowing access to a gas or oil while. earlier this morning early this afternoon i stopped at tyson's lock on

the director of the citizen energy program. the amount of well water contamination caused by hydraulic fracturing. when first asked in an ap investigation is the most ruthless of one so far when it comes to the environmental damage caused by cracking. so far yes and what this study shows is that this huge discrepancies between what kind of the procedures. each individual state takes in addressing these concerns a mile of water and other environmental contamination from hydraulic fracturing of process what this investigation shows is that basically most of the state churches operating hot lines where people can call in report these concerns are having but were not seen systemic follow up to to determine exactly what if any contamination has occurred in fact what we've seen at citizen is that one tsp of the local oil or natural gas companies confront landowners

they typically require them to sign books noted in what's known as non disclosure agreements which for bid of these landowners from discussing if there was contamination of all and so what we're seeing is the tweed is that the lack of good information about well contamination and all of these. gag orders on these non disclosure agreements. if it's having a huge impact on policy because we're not getting the data we need to determine what the impacts of tracking aren't so of one thing that we've asked oil industry to do is to of releases on homeowners and landowners from non disclosure agreements to allow them to talk publicly about their experiences of having their water contaminated from cracking it's still a little bit and during that response but i do is just something in particular. overall i read a number of different complaint that happen in all these different for states ins for

atlanta in two thousand level for instance an ohio fifty four were reported on the stuart confirmed that seems to be the pattern consistently wasn't that so few are actually being confirmed that this case will either be because the state lacked the resources to follow up on these tales a lack of technical ability to assess whether or not the contamination has occurred and often at the same time that these folks are contacting the state which their concerns are also contacting the local oil company and typically the oil company will swoop in and a want to punch this whole situation up and so bill company will save lives and will give you ten or twenty thousand dollars in cash will give you a year's supply of free drinking water when we have to do was sign this non disclosure agreement that forbids you from ever mentioning this. the when in fact there is a famous case that came out this past summer where one non disclosure agreement forbids

two young children the family from ever talk to my hydraulic fracturing for the rest of their lives to these non disclosure agreements are becoming more and more onerous and it's been hitting up policy analysis to determine the extent of the dangers of track and i remember the case well we actually covered every hair on the beach. now with the associated press that report said that the most common type of pollution is from neck pain and not the chemicals injected into the ground and news during the drying process. take that to me will the methane is basically the natural gas and that's just the most common form of other interaction between these wells of the seismic of formations in groundwater sources and so that be the easiest and quickest in that attack that also mean it's the easiest thing to detect the fact is is that the hydraulic fracturing process as you mentioned in your overview is injecting of millions of gallons of highly corrosive

and highly toxic chemical mixtures into the ground and some of them are in small traces it still is harmful for health but it's more difficult to pick up especially at a different state agencies lack of resources but to do the full kind of testing required. and in fact israel car accident carrying frocks crude oil up in north dakota with one of the things that we're seeing that caused this fire to be so combustible what if racking up more goals were mixed in with the crude oil and as if coming out of the formation which is creating problems in our rail transport system sourcing dangers of the chemical is not only for the environment than fervor and for drinking water sources but also on rail transport where you are seventy percent of the north dakota fractal or lesbian now i really don't have much time left but something i noticed while looking over all these documents was then

that texas had that ninety four page spreadsheet and i said was very thorough but ohio pennsylvania west virginia named ward as thorough. so we took over wine are such differences in its reporting and would make a difference in the states captain our trip. it would again that what taxes did more thoroughly and what they were able to produce. it didn't. in response to an open records were request was simple even longer. of all of the complaints that given the agency's receive. there wasn't necessarily follow through to determine the validity of these complaints and so it's one thing to have a clear catalog of all of the complaints in every state we need to have of the standards for that but the most important thing is actually the investigation and that's where the states are doing their jobs. thank you so much for weighing and tyson thought and director of the tab the citizen's energy program thank you my pleasure i doesn't pronounce

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